Necktie.



No. 852.824. PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

c. w. TQDAVIEIS. NEOKTIE,

AEPLIOATIOH-IILED JUNE 7-, 1906.

UNITE STATES PATENT GFFTGE.

CHARLES w. T. DAVIES, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR To Goon FORM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

NECKTIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May '7, 1907.

Application filed June 7,1906. Serial No. 320,648.

To aZl who/n it 'nuty concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. T. DA-

residing at London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neckties, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to neckties.

The present invention is an improvement on the necktie set forth in United States LettersP-atent No. 586 ,284, granted me July The necktie set forth in that pat ent, while admirably adapted to relieve the tying ends of strain and permit them to be made into the desired knot, has been found to permit the knot or bow to sag unless tied quite tight. To overcome this tendency,

users adopted the practice of passing one of the tying ends up and back of the retaining connection and then bringing it down in front to make a bow or knot. While preventing sagging of the knot or bow, this ex edient permits the knot or bow to slip to th left or right and out of its proper central position.

The present invention provides simple and improved means whereby the foreg ing defects are Overcome and the knot or bow is perfectly prevented from either sa ging or shifting laterally.

The present invention may be carried out in different ways, some of which are set forth hereinafter and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figurel is a view of my improved necktie, dotted lines representing the manner in which one of the tying ends is passed between the parts of the retaining connection preparatory to tying of the ends into a knot or bow; and Figs. 2 and 3, details of certain of several different forms the invention may assume.

As in myUnited States PatentNo. 586,284, the necktie is made in two parts A and B which may be connected together at the rear by any suitable adjustable fastening C. A connection D, which may be of any desired material, either elastic or inelastic and permanently afliXed, or attached as a separate connection, or formed integrally from the fabric of the inner ply of'the opposite sides of neckband, is secured to the parts A and B, leaving the tying ends E and F free, but, while in my United States Patent No. 586,284, the connection D has no opening therethrough, my present improvement is provided with a slit Or opening G. It is not necessary that this slit or Opening G extend horizontally, as it may extend vertically, as shown at D where the connection is in two parts in Fig. 2, nor is it requisite that the connection D be in one piece with a slit in it, as two separate pieces D and D may be employed, as shown in Fig. 3. The connection D may assume various other forms, all within the spirit and scope of the present invention, the eneral idea of which is to provide a connection D which will be made in separated parts between which one of the tying ends of the necktie can be passed to prevent vertical or lateral movement of the knot or bow.

In using the improved necktie, the tying ends are first crossed and one of them is then passed upwardly through the slit G (or between two parts of the connection D, D, D, D) and then brought over and made into the bow or knot with the other tying end. The bow Or knot is then supported against sagging and cannot shift laterally or sidewise, thus insuring a proper appearance at all times. and permitting a loose tying, if desired, without danger of the knot or bow coming undone. Retainers I, to engage with the collar may be used on the necktie. I am aware that the pieces A, B, E, F, may be put together in a variety of ways other than as shown in the present drawings and their manner of association is immaterial so long as the result is the same, i. 6., a tie with an open neckband and tying ends bridged over where they join by a center piece which has an opening through which one end of the necktie may be fed so as to hold the knot in place.

The invention is not confined to use in connection with any particular type of necktie, but is adapted to be embodied in bows, fourin-hands, and other types of ties.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Let- I opening vthrough which a tying end of the ters Patent, is necktie may be passed. IO

As a new article of manufacture, a necktie In testimony whereof, I hereunto aflix my having a center piece whose ends are attached signature in presence of two Witnesses. v 5 to and bridge the side parts of the necktie at CHARLES W. T. DAVIES.

the front thereof, leaving the necktie tying WVitnesses; ends free, said center bridge piece being coin- /BAXTER MORTON,

posed of parts which have an intervening 'RTCHARD N. KONIG. 

